How bad was this email that I just sent to my professor?

[olds]

It would confirm to the professor that you're an idiot.

This

 

[zinfamous]

At a research university, the professors aren't actually there to teach. They are there to publish. Teaching is a distraction from their real job. Furthermore, often their salaries are 100% paid out of their research grants, so the teaching is essentially uncompensated labor.

Undergraduate tuition is used to pay for the nice buildings and the armies of highly-paid administrative staff that infest college campuses, not the professors.

It's sadly true.

But actually, the admins and staff in the departments that exist, primarily to support big research Professors, are also paid through said-professors' monstrous grants. The University takes a nice chunk out of those rewards.

 

[jagec]

If your response as a professional instructor is to answer a question back with another question, you're doing it wrong.

Worked for Socrates.

 

[Smoblikat]

It was something that he went over slowly in the first 15 minutes of class and I missed it.

I didn't pay attention.

Tell him to take the smug out of his ass and answer the fucking question. You dont pay through the nose to be belittled by a man whos paycheck is coming from your money.

 

[torpid]

I understand what you're saying, but I take issue with having to repeat something at a college level because some tard simply didn't pay attention for a full 15 minutes of the lecture.

College level. High school and lower would be a different story.

I thought this too. Yet it happened in class very regularly. I was particularly depressed when I realized that there was one guy who seemed to take a lot of the same classes I did over the years and somehow he was still managing to pass despite asking questions like this. The difference was, perhaps, that my guy was actually paying attention and would still ask the professors questions he had just answered.

My favorite was a two day lecture on the software and hardware involved in hard drives. The lecturer completely covered every possible useful subject on hard drives including the general mechanics and the computer concepts involved. After the two day lecture on this, my favorite fellow student at the time raises his hand when the lecturer asked, "any questions?" and asked, "how does a hard drive work?"

Was he just really good at playing the straight man to his own terrible jokes? Maybe. I did laugh a lot when we were discussing the limitations of ASCII and how it couldn't possibly represent all languages in the world. The professor socratically asked, "For example, how many letters or characters are there in the Chinese language" and my favorite buddy raised his hand and said, "Seven."

 

[MrColin]

In college I always tried to identify two fellow students that weren't idiots so I could ask them questions. I always tried to return the favor when possible and the relationships often continued in other classes. Sometimes even the idiots were worth asking too. IMO you should only ask the professor about stuff that is more advanced than the scope of the class. They like to have a lofty attitude about the students not being customers, but more like livestock being rated for consumption by industry.

I didn't see your email but I recommend that you keep a low profile in hopes he just forgets.

 

[brianmanahan]

thread is useless when stupid OP removes OP

 

[GasX]

the kind of guy who's first response would be to answer your question with another question clearly gives zero fucks about his job anymore.

You never heard of the Socratic teaching method?